_Picoides arcticus_
Two toes in front and one behind, a solid black
back and an orange-yellow crown in the male
distinguish this from all our other Woodpeckers.
Size of the Hairy, L. 9-1/2.
_Range._ Canada, and northern parts of our border
states, rarely south in winter, as far as Nebraska
and Ohio.
Cambridge, one record. N. Ohio, rare W.V. SE.
Minn., rare.
An inhabitant of the spruce and balsam forests of our northern states,
occasionally straggling southward in winter. Nests in May.